Calestous Juma, Innovation and its Enemies. After flipping through it and reading the section headings I can already tell this is going to be very interesting. If you don’t follow the author on Twitter, you should: @calestous. Robert Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth. I read the first few dozen pages on my Kindle […]
Review: The Art Of Less Doing
If you’ve already read books like Getting Things Done by David Allen, Essentialism by Greg McKeown, or The Four-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, or Jason Womack’s books, Your Best Just Got Better and Get Momentum, you won’t find much in The Art Of Less Doing by Ari Meisel that’s really new. That said, it’s very interesting […]
Review: The Art Of Less Doing
If you’ve already read books like Getting Things Done by David Allen, Essentialism by Greg McKeown, or The Four-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, or Jason Womack’s books, Your Best Just Got Better and Get Momentum, you won’t find much in The Art Of Less Doing by Ari Meisel that’s really new. That said, it’s very interesting […]
Review: The Art Of Less Doing
If you’ve already read books like Getting Things Done by David Allen, Essentialism by Greg McKeown, or The Four-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, or Jason Womack’s books, Your Best Just Got Better and Get Momentum, you won’t find much in this book that’s really new. That said, it’s very interesting to see how someone has […]
Not As Much I Like Fried Chicken: Present Vs. Future Satisfaction
Episode number 39 of season three of Teen Titans Go! (titled “Think About Your Future”) poses an interesting question: is high time preference a way of redistributing from our rich future selves to our poor present selves? Moreover, are we saving too much or too little? At first glance, the Titans actions look absurd. However, […]
My First (But Not Last) Experience With Airbnb
I spent part of the second week of August in an apartment in Brooklyn that my wife and I had rented with Airbnb. We were in town to celebrate her birthday, and we had a great time visiting the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Museum, and some of the great restaurants Brooklyn and Manhattan have […]
Eating in Moderation from The Onion
I’ve learned that for me, going to a restaurant is sometimes like taking an alcoholic to a bar. I have a wholly dysfunctional relationship with food. This wasn’t a problem when I was a teenager who could eat anything in any quantity and stay rail-thin, but as my metabolism slowed into adulthood it started to […]
Stock Your Shelves, Economically
I gave a ton of books to the university library a few months ago, but I’m generally a very big fan of having a lot of books around. In response to an article saying students should keep their textbooks, I offer the following advice: Be on the lookout for textbooks at thrift stores. I’ve gotten […]
I gave a ton of books to the university library a few months ago, but I’m generally a very big fan of having a lot of books around. In response to an article saying students should keep their textbooks, I offer the following advice: Be on the lookout for textbooks at thrift stores. I’ve gotten […]
Don’t Listen to Music with Lyrics While You’re Trying to Work
About ten years ago, I read a piece of advice that has definitely increased my productivity: don’t listen to music with lyrics. It’s fun to rock out sometimes when I’m doing something that doesn’t require serious concentration (like checking email), but I find that if I listen to music with lyrics I end up getting […]